National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0386

Overview

FileVault in Mac OS X 10.4.5 and earlier does not properly mount user directories when creating a FileVault image, which allows local users to access protected files when FileVault is enabled.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-062A

Name: TA06-062A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html

External Source: BID

Name: 16907

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19064

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19064

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2006-03-01

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0791

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-filevault-file-access(25024)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25024

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 23642

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/23642

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382